Scopely is looking for a Senior Game Designer to join the WWE Champions team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and delivering new features and systems that enhance player engagement, retention, and monetization for our live mobile game.
What You'll Do
- Own the end-to-end design and delivery of new features and systems that enhance player engagement, retention, and monetization.
- Conceptualize, prototype, and iterate on meta systems, game modes, events, challenges, and social mechanics.
- Contribute to systems design discussions around economy, progression, and balancing.
- Evaluate live data and player feedback to identify opportunities for iterative improvements.
- Translate high-level business and creative goals into detailed feature specs, wireframes, and documentation.
- Partner closely with Product, Analytics, and Engineering to design, tune, and optimize features based on player behavior and KPIs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Art, UX, Production) to ensure features are implemented to spec.
- Stay current on market trends, competitor titles, and evolving F2P design strategies.
- Mentor junior designers by providing feedback and guiding best practices.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in game design.
- Proven ability to design and deliver impactful live features such as game modes, challenges, and events.
- Proven experience in systems design, progression modeling, and feature development.
- Experience working on live games, especially in the F2P mobile space.
- A proven track record of delivering features that balance player fun, engagement, and monetization.
- Familiarity with systems and economy design, including tuning, progression modeling, and numerical balancing.
- Experience working cross-functionally and navigating live production environments.
- A positive, thoughtful, and collaborative approach to game development.
- Strong understanding of feature design fundamentals — player motivation, usability, pacing, and reward systems.
- Analytical mindset; comfortable interpreting data to inform design choices.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Hands-on experience with Excel and Google Sheets.
- Passion for F2P mobile games, especially character-collection RPGs and combat-based systems.
Nice to Have
- Experience designing features for character-collection RPGs or combat-based mobile titles.
- Ability to mentor other designers and influence cross-team creative direction.
- Experience working on mobile F2P games.
- Familiarity with WWE.
- Experience developing in Unity.
Technical Stack
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- Unity
Team & Environment
You will be part of the WWE Champions team within Scopely's Midcore division.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $123,600—$187,000 USD (for CA, CO, NJ, NY, WA) + eligible equity and bonuses.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Healthcare benefits.
- Retirement benefits.
- Pet insurance.
- Paid holidays.
- Paid Scopely free days.
- Unlimited paid time off.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates in the United States and Canada.
Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.
